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Riccardo

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

John Lennon, Stephen Fry, Aimee Mann

Movies:

2001:A Space Odyssey, Alien[s], Amelie, American Beauty, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Dr Strangelove, Easy Rider, The Exorcist, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Godfather [ I & II ], Grosse Point Blank, Groundhog Day, The Italian Job [ NOT the remake! ], It's A Wonderful Life, LA Confidential, Leon, Magnolia, Memento, Monsters Inc, Monty Python's Life Of Brian & Holy Grail, Pleasantville, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Roman Holiday, Seven, Star Wars, Toy Story, The Usual Suspects, Withnail & I

Television:

24, Alias, Black Books, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, E.R., Fawlty Towers, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Homicide Life On The Streets, Lost, Malcolm In The Middle, NYPD Blue, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Smallville, The Sopranos, Stargate SG1, Veronica Mars, The West Wing, Wonderfalls.

Books:

Anything by...Douglas Adams, Mark Billingham, Raymond Chandler, Leslie Charteris, Agatha Christie, Len Deighton, Mo Hader, Robert Harris, Dennis Lehane, John Le Carre, Ed McBain, Terry Pratchett, Kathy Reichs

My Blog

For those of a certain age...

This made me smileClose your eyes and go back in time................... Before the Internet or the Apple Mac. Before Playstation or Super Nintendo... Way back............................. I'm tal...
Posted by Riccardo on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:29:00 PST

Nerina Pallot - Manchester 29 January 2007

S'been a pittifuly slow start to the year gig wise...a WHOLE month for the first gig??? with my reputation?  Anyhew what better way to kick off the new season than with OBL [ don't ask ] her...
Posted by Riccardo on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:19:00 PST

Nerina Pallot @ The SBE

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Posted by Riccardo on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 02:34:00 PST

Last Town Chorus - The Late Room Manchester

greetings  - another  gig another blog and yet more pictures and a video even! On Tuesday myself and Mr Gray of this very Parish took ouserlves along to the Late Room in Mancheseter to see o...
Posted by Riccardo on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:39:00 PST

I think I'm turning middle class...I really thinks so...

so the heat has finally got to me and in an effort to avoid melting I am sat outside in my back yard watching Leonna Naess over the interweb live from London on my laptop [the joy of wireless net...
Posted by Riccardo on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 02:08:00 PST

Another Bank Holiday

and another day @ work. So far so good...unlike the last BH where I went a little crazy with the ol' plastic this time around I have been more restrained, just pre-ordered a couple of books [ the new...
Posted by Riccardo on Mon, 01 May 2006 05:37:00 PST

as Samuel Clemmens nearly said...

rumours of my impending departure seem to have been greatly exaggerated.... I got a new job, well at least I thought I had a new job. After 8 long years [ 7 years elven months and a week but who's cou...
Posted by Riccardo on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:02:00 PST

Bank Holiday comes six times a year...

well actually it's eight but that's the lyric - take it up with that Alban fella so...it's a Bank Holiday Monday and once again I'm at work where I should be taking advantage of the lack of calls to ...
Posted by Riccardo on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:22:00 PST

Hanoi Jane

it's another boring friday afternoon @ work so I took myself to the BBC news website to see what was going on in the big bad and I read this story... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4816...
Posted by Riccardo on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:17:00 PST

Desert Island Discs

or the 8 tracks I couldnt live without... Fiona Apple - Across The Universe [ even better than The Beatles shock! ] Blur  - Song 2 [ Whoo and indeed Hoo! ] Rosalie Deighton - Lie To Me [ Can...
Posted by Riccardo on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:53:00 PST